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| Outreach to Muslims Through Entrepreneurship |
| Wednesday, April 28 2010 16:33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The conference hosted close to 250 foreign delegates from more than 50 nations around the world. Among the attendees were entrepreneurs, investors, academics and many more distinguished individuals from nations such as Kuwait, Morocco, India, Cameroon name a few. The Moroccan delegates (who were selected by US Embassy in Morocco) included Moroccan Conglomerate Ynna Holding Head, Miloud Chaabi, The Moroccan Confederation of business (CGEM) president, Mohamed Horani, Small business entrepreneur Moulay A. Esskalli, Dr Elhaite of Eau-globe, BMCE foundation’s wafaa Fathi, Community activist Khalid Bachtiri and others. During the opening ceremony President Obama commented on how “the United States and Muslim communities around the world too often fell victim to mutual mistrust” in spite of the common beliefs shared between the two communities. According to the President, now is time to change the course of the future that is plagued with past divisions, destructive actions, and the mentality of the past. Instead, the President hopes for greater cooperation in order to build “confidence and conviction in a future of justice and progress and the dignity of all human beings regardless of their race, regardless of their religion.” The first summit found its focus within the discussion of entrepreneurship. "We believe entrepreneurship is a fundamental American value; it's also a force that has the ability to unlock opportunity for people around the world," said Ben Rhode  Among several objectives behind the summit, is to forge concrete steps toward a mutually beneficial partnership among America and nations around the world, primarily those with vast Muslim populations. Concrete Steps Forward Already in response to President Obama’s commitment to partnership with Muslim communities worldwide based on mutual interest, mutual respect and the 2010 Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) have forged partnerships with Business for Diplomatic Action (BDA) and Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) to expand exchange programs and pursue new opportunities in entrepreneurship and innovation. ECA’s International Visitor Leadership Program, New Beginning: Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation, aims to bring 25 entrepreneurs each year to the United States “from countries with significant Muslim populations over the next four years for educational seminars, mentorship, and first-hand experience in the business place with American entrepreneurs.” To complement this exchange, ECA aims to cooperate with “private sector partners to send 100 American entrepreneurs abroad over the next four years.” In sum the program will focus on developing a spirit of entrepreneurship and small business enterprise and expand on understanding and benefits of social entrepreneurship. The ultimate goal, of this and future programs, is to ultimately create long lasting partnerships and networks that are “mutually beneficial and will support job creation and economic opportunity” in the U.S. as well as abroad.
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Morcelli
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... Christopher, Sorry my mistake. Indeed the US has been reaching out to Muslim by bombing Libya, Iraq, Iraq again, Afghanistan, Pakistan and by supporting every Muslim dictator there is from Musharraf to Mubarak. It is pretty obvious that you are among those Jews who's main concern is to keep the conflict alive because you know well that the conflict can only end with giving the Palestinians what Israel stole from them. And just like the settlers, the y are not in the mood to give back what they stole, ya Abu khourayra. |
ChristopherL
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Morcelli Please stop acting like no one has tried to reach out to Muslims before. They do not reciprocate, and we should never bow down to a religion that calls for the dominance of non-Muslims. The Palestine vs. Israel conflict is about Islam, not land. The Islamic scriptures call for Muslims to fight and kill Jews to reach judgement day. There will never be true peace, because of Islam. Book 041, Number 6985: Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. |
Morcelli
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... One way to outreach to Muslims is to stop Israel from decimating the Palestinians. Obama apparently does have good intentions to rid the US from the stigma left by Bush, but when you send Hillary to AIPAC to tell the world that the US will never abandon Israel, then I do not see how such statements will resonate with the Muslim in the Street from Pakistan to Morocco. Mini outreach can only take the US so far, The US need a serious outreach to Muslims, and the Muslims need to encourage the US to start looking into their directions the same way the US looks to the Jews. Obama is so far adamant about stopping the expansion of the settlements and that's something no other president has done. It seems to me that Obama, think one thing and Emanuel Rahm thinks something else. |
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